Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — POLITICAL NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NEWS NOTES.

A special from New York says that General Alger, of Michigan, has given the Republican National Committee a check for SIOO,OOO for campaign purposes. Mr. Blaine will sail from Liverpool August Ist. He says that he has not made any special plans for speaking in the campaign. He will go to his home directly after his New York reception. He has made arrangements to speak in New York and Connecticnt, but he has not yet accepted any Western invitations. The New York Republican Executive Committee have* received information that the Democrats are organizing a band of Chinamen to get up a parade and ta carry Harrison and Morton banners. Then they would have photographs taken of the procession and scatter them broadcast over the country;and over the Pacific Coast. If this is done, it is said the Republicans will get up a parade of British tars for Cleveland, wearing suits made of English flags. The intellectual campaign is progressing.